Re: Timeout

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From: Meg Geddes (meg_at_mintsol.com)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:40:55 -0400

"Brian H" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uLD%23asULEHA.3472@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> When it _does_ work, I can see it download my mail almost instantaneously.
> So it's not really a _timeout_ -- I've got different email clients, I've
> pinged/tracerouted my way to the mail servers, and there's no connection
> issue -- only Outlook thinks so.
>
> This happens over a T3 as well as dialup.

Are you running Norton or some kind of a virus checker? I notice this
behavior with a couple of my POP accounts that get a lot of spam and
viruses. If you go in and look at the message once it arrives (in vi or some
kind of a text editor) you can see a bunch of TIMEOUT statements from Norton
appended to the header. Meanwhile, it'll take 4 or 4 minutes to arrive
(from a machine on the LAN that's sitting right next to me, and the message
is only maybe 200K)

Meg

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